I am currently completing my PhD in the Department of the Classics. My dissertation, "Sunt Lacrimae Rerum: Decorum and Grief in Ancient and Medieval Latin Epic," argues that representations of grief in epic texts from Homer to the 12th century CE are powerfully shaped by unwritten rules of appropriateness.

My principal areas of research include:

  • epic poetry and its reception, including medieval vernacular adaptations;
  • grief and gender in Greco-Roman literature and life;
  • late antique Latin poetry, especially biblical epic;
  • intertextuality and reception;
  • translation in theory and practice;
  • and the digital humanities.

Please contact me for more information or a curriculum vitae.